Valentines Day Headshots

Headshots are a Canucks Army feature where we link to the day’s freshest news, and other assorted Canucks web-goodies. If you’ve written a blogpost, produced a tribute video or birthed a clever .gif into existence – please e-mail Thom at thom.drance@gmail.com.

This take by Elliot Pap contains an extremely interesting quote where Vigneault describes, at length, his ideal deployment strategy. Of course, the take is then completely ruined by an inexcusably lazy reliance on plus/minus, as if those numbers indicate anything at all about individual defensive performance. So frustrating.

I could probably write a whole post on this .gif. First of all, check out Jannik Hansen and Manny Malhotra (to the right of Henrik Sedin) who both absolutely freak out over the goal. It looks like Manny screams in Jannik’s face out of giddiness! Secondly, on the far left of the bench is Cody Franchise, who seems totally unfazed by what’s going on. I’m not a big intangibles guy, but I’ll admit: I dig the ice-water in those veins.

Chris Higgins is sufficiently recovered from his gross infection and will play on Thursday against the Avalanche.